The president’s South Lawn fight lacks the ambition of ancient Rome.

We know of nothing,” Henry James observed in 1875, “that is a better proof of the essential impotence of criticism, in the ...

Panelists joined a special edition of Washington Week With The Atlantic to discuss the state of democracy 250 years after the ...

When David Hockney in the 1960s turned his attention to a photograph of a splash-splattered swimming pool, he did what most ...

Scott Warren is a fellow at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins, where he focuses on institutional trust and other democracy issues.

Katy Osborn is an anthropologist and a partner at the strategy consultancy ReD Associates, where she studies how people navigate technology and civic life.

Aamina Ahmad is the author of The Return of Faraz Ali, winner of the Los Angeles Times Art Siedenbaum Award. Her short fiction can be found in her forthcoming collection, July Sun. She teaches at the ...

An encounter was an act on behalf of the decent in the face of an indecent world, really; that’s what he’d been telling ...

Trump voters don’t care to defend institutions that they see as illegitimate.

President Trump himself will occupy an arena-level seat, positioned like a Roman emperor in his pulvinar—the imperial box—and ...

The two sides say they are close to an agreement to end a war that has left everyone badly bruised.

To critics who see Trump’s Kennedy Center tenure as ruinous, the ruling suddenly made these changes seem reversible—all the ...